Prayer Room

The prayer room was located in the Pfifferling family home. Last use: No information

Last use: residential use

On July 9, 1905, the first Jewish old people's home in Unna was inaugurated. It was located at Mühlenstraße 7. A prayer room was set up for the elderly people living there. In the post-war period, the Catholic parish of St. Katharina acquired the building from the Jewish Trust Corporation. Today it is the Boniface Catholic Home for the Aged. After a new Jewish community was established in late 1990 / early 2000, the prayer room temporarily served as the synagogue of the new Jewish community.

Last use: house chapel of the Catholic nursing home

It is the residence of the former head of the Jewish community in Rheindahlen, Moses Strauß. After the incorporation of Rheindahlen into the municipality of Gladbach, the Jewish community built its new prayer room here. It was a large and spacious room, which was sufficient for the small Jewish congregation (about 20 members). For Rheindahlen, a prayer room rented by the congregation has been handed down since 1843, which is said to have been located at the corner of Rennestra&szlig/ Am Mühlentor.

Jews have lived in Mengede since the 19th century. Jews from Mengede, Deusen and Bodelschwing belonged to the Castrop community. They did not go to the Castrop synagogue, rather they used the prayer room in the house of Friedrich Hagemann in Siegenstr. Nothing is known of devastation during the Reichskristallnacht.